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Northern elders want amnesty for Boko Haram,\u00a0 don’t, they are criminals says Dr Mohammed<\/p>\n

SOME prominent northerners including the former Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Mohammed Uwais and Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Ambassador Babagana Kingibe and former Nigerian Ambassador to the United Nations, Ibrahim Gambari have asked the President -elect, General Muhammadu Buhari, rtd, declare amnesty for Boko Haram
\nInsurgents when he takes over power on May 29.<\/p>\n

However, Second Republic lawmaker, Dr. Junaid Mohammed, dismissed the call saying it would amount to rewarding criminals instead of punishing them for crimes against humanity.<\/p>\n

They also asked Buhari to give priority attention to the special economic programmes for the North East geopolitical zone which had been ravaged by the Boko Haram terrorists, just as they warned against the scrapping of the on-going amnesty programme for ex-militants in the Niger Delta region.<\/p>\n

These were contained in a communiqu\u00e9 issued after a two-day conference with the theme: \u201cSecurity and Governance Challenges in Africa\u2019s largest Democracy,\u201d by the Savannah Centre for Diplomacy, Democracy and Development, SCDDD, as part of its \u201cNigeria Beyond 12015 Project,\u201d in Abuja yesterday.<\/p>\n

They also called on the Federal Government \u2018\u2019to expedite action on the compensation of victims of Boko Haram terrorism and insurgency through the established and funded Victims\u2019 Support Fund,\u2019\u2019 and for urgent priority attention to the special economic programme for the North East by the incoming administration, just as they condemned \u2018\u2019the carnage, devastations and displacements, which the Boko Haram group inflicted upon many innocent Nigerians in the north east region.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Furthermore, the communiqu\u00e9 called \u2018\u2019for the establishment of a special economic programme for the affected states of the North-East, focusing on rehabilitation, resettlement and reconstruction,\u2019\u2019 as well as on the need for \u2018\u2019the governors of the North-East States and indeed of the entire North, on the necessity for a blueprint that addresses the issues of vocational and skills-acquisition education for the youth<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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